Bear Scotland presents.. and bands have had a nice wee mention in today's Scotsman newspaper, discussing the current good health of the Edinburgh music scene. To read the full article follow the link

http://living.scotsman.com/features/Capital-records-Edinburg%20h39s-music-scene.5021641.jp

Everyone needs a bit of Enfant Bastard in their lives. Artists like Ariel Pink have managed to push lo-fi to its creative limits, but Enfant Bastard, with songs like Joanna Newsom 666 and You Are My Fucking Sunshine is less about technique and more about the irreverence. This Best of compilation isn't trying to impress the pants off anyone with its clever recording or judicious sampling, nor does Mr Bastard hide behind the distortion pedal as a means of filling in the spaces between semi-melodic song sketches. Rather, tape crackle hisses away in the background, instruments slop about all over the place, and everyone sounds wasted - like they just rolled in from the pub and decided to write and record an entire album in five minutes, resulting in the odd flaring up of relationship-killing drunken honesty. Making things seem effortless is a skill in itself; sounding this exquisitely rough is enthralling. [Ewen Millar]

NEW DATES ARE NOW UP FOR LES ENFANT BASTARD, WITHERED HAND, MEURSAULT AND THE FOUNDLING WHEEL.

BEAR SCOTLAND PRESENTS... ARE ALSO PLEASED TO LET YOU KNOW WE WILL BE PUTTING ON THE AMAZING DIRTY SUMMER IN JUNE, WITH SUPPORT COMING FROM OUR VERY OWN THE FOUNDLING WHEEL.

PLEASE CHECK THE SITE FOR DETAILS OF ALL FORTHCOMING DATES

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Withered Hand has just got back from closing the Saturday night at HOMEGAMES festival in anstruther. It was a truly amazing weekend of music, an amazing experience.

follow the link below to hear what the scotsman newspaper had to say about the weekend (withered hand gets quite a nice few words right at the end)

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Home-is-where-the-art.3928907.jp

The kind gent behind the truly great online music blog songbytoad.com has posted a rather lovely review of Meursault’s debut full length ’Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing with Tongues’

http://songbytoad.com/2008/03/12/meursault-pissing-on-bonfireskissing-with-tongues/

We recommend you all subscribe to this site, it is one of the few that truly takes an interest in what scotland has to offer, and does a truly amazing job at recording this.

We recommend you also check out the first ever live session they have done with the great Broken Records

Salt part one from Meursault Debut 'pissing on bonfires/kissing with tongues'

available to listen now!

Bear Scotland presents... Pissing on bonfires/kissing with tongues by MEURSAULT

Debut album

release: 7March 2008

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